#medical

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#after #army #captain #come #end

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#command #emphasis #food #gave #great

The important question isn't how to keep bad physicians from harming patient; it's how to keep good physicians from harming patients. Medical malpractice suits are a remarkably ineffective remedy. (In reference to a Harvard Medical Practice Study)... fewer than 2 percent of the patients who had received substandard care ever filed suit. Conversely, only a small minority among patients who did sue had in fact been victims of negligent care. And a patient's likelihood of winning a suit depended primarily on how poor his or her outcome was, regardless of whether that outcome was caused by disease or unavoidable risks of care. The deeper problem with medical malpractice is that by demonizing errors they prevent doctors from acknowledging & discussing them publicly. The tort system makes adversaries of patient & physician, and pushes each other to offer a heavily slanted version of events. ↗

— Atul Gawande

#science

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S. ↗

— John Cameron

#department #first #i #medical #medical physics

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#advances #conditions #cost #human #human suffering

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#adult #ambulance #another #argue #assistance

We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents. ↗

— George Pataki

#citizenship #coverage #documents #family #four

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#adequate #care #ensuring #medical #medical care

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#centers #community #critical #deal #emergency

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#decades #healthier #helped #improvements #investment